NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen, with features appearing like grains and knots found in a cut of wood. "Once upon a time ...

On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope as it orbits the sun in our solar system, 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: SA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The James Webb Space ...

"These grains are only one millionth of a meter across." The image above may look similar to a combat scene in an Avengers movie, but it's actually a uniquely lit-up view of the dust and gas ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

The Webb Space Telescope mission is threatened—not by anything in the desolate outskirts of the Sun, but by potential budget cuts. Webb is performing better than expected, astronomers say ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the ...

That means the latest image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is an exceptionally exhilarating treat. On Tuesday, NASA shared that Webb had gotten an unprecedented look at the interstellar ...

The telescope captured the infrared glow of the cosmic material, revealing delicate patterns. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful telescope developed by mankind, is ...

Now, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered barred Milky Way-like galaxies much further back in time than we previously expected to find them. In modern times ...

NASA's Webb Telescope, which is equipped with very advanced infrared capabilities, recently caught the glowing echo of this light. These echoes allowed astronomers to take a new, high-quality ...

On this date, President John F. Kennedy provides NASA with its strongest advocate for large space telescopes, James Webb ...